{"id":217689,"date":"2025-07-12T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/data-transfer-speeds-increase-significantly-through-new-optical-chip-design"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:15:13","slug":"data-transfer-speeds-increase-significantly-through-new-optical-chip-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/data-transfer-speeds-increase-significantly-through-new-optical-chip-design","title":{"rendered":"Data transfer speeds increase significantly through new optical chip design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/data-transfer-speeds-increase-significantly-through-new-optical-chip-design3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical chip that can transfer massive amounts of data at ultra-high speed. As thin as a strand of hair, this technology offers unrivaled energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-025-01686-1\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, the innovation harnesses the power of light to transmit information. Unlike traditional systems that rely solely on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+intensity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light intensity<\/a>, this chip also uses the phase of light, in other words, its shift.<\/p>\n<p>By adding a new dimension to the signal, the system reaches unprecedented performance levels, all while maintaining a tiny size. \u201cWe\u2019re jumping from 56 gigabits per second to 1,000 gigabits per second,\u201d says Ph.D. student Alireza Geravand, the first author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical chip that can transfer massive amounts of data at ultra-high speed. As thin as a strand of hair, this technology offers unrivaled energy efficiency. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}